[PRP] Dawn engulfs all [Zerrin x Saratama]

[Graceangel]

For Saratama, she was a night owl. She relished being up all night and sleeping her day away. She was usually in bed by the time daylight broke in the morning, but she had been off and about doing this and that. She found herself up later than usual. As she treaded on a path to somewhere to sleep for the day where it'd be nice and shadowed; she had to close her eyes. The brightness of the rising sun.

The thing was though. She had happened on this anthill. She thought she felt a whole bunch of them spill up and out of their hive. They had swarmed a bunch on one of her feet. She stopped and kept stomping her foot and swirling in circles trying to get them off. When she had finally gotten the last one off or so she thought; she crept down to the ground to stare at that ant hill. She let out a roar to warn them to stop messing with her! Those little jerks.  

[Graceangel]

Her eyes moved from side to side not having seen who this voice belonged to yet. Was that true? Would that help? "Well, I'm not moving now. I'm yelling at them, so they'll stop coming up here. Oh look. There they went in there! I know their trickeries. They're probably just in there planning their next attack on my feet." She lifted a front paw looking at it for a moment. She was staring at the ant hole then. "What if I just stomp their hill with my paw? Think they'll just all form an ant hill like an exploding volcano and shoot up from behind me? And, then swarm all over me to show me who's the worst of the worst?"

Yeah. She had been getting pretty ridiculous. She then moved subtley and slowly to look around at who was giving her advice. Her eyes looked him over, but they didn't give away much in her first impressions.  

[Graceangel]

She slowly pulled herself up into a sitting position. She looked back at him with quite a face that filled with surprise and incredulity. "Well, I wasn't in trouble. I don't think. Look. I was minding my own business. I was heading home. Then, there were like one or two. They wouldn't get off of me. There was one. It just kept going all over on me."

She shivered a ripple of tremor down her body remembering that feeling. Oh wait no. That wasn't a memory. Was that it again? Oh snap. She started lifting a paw and looking back around her tail. "crap. I think there's one still on me somewhere. See... this is what started it. I thought I felt it. I stopped to see. then before I knew it. There were a whole bunch all over my foot. Where are they all coming from?"

She looked back at him again with a mild degree of panic in her eyes. "Can't you come and look and see if you see it? Just like squish it or something? Or, knock it on the ground?"  

[Graceangel]

Ugh!!! She was too tired for this s**t! It was her bedtime. But, she'd never be able to find any rest like this. She was fretting till she saw that he had come to look. "You see it???? Here, I'll turn this way. Look on this side too."

When she had turned, she watched a change of expressions pass over his face. She was confused and surprised. What? What was that all about? Then, that last face. "Oh no! Did they get you too? What's with this.. I wonder if..." She then started to scoot away in another direction. Her eyes widened in brazen panic. The whole spot she had been sitting in had multiple ant hill outlets. She had been so stupid as to not see them. No wonder!

Then, she looked to the lion who came to help. "Yo cat. I think.. The best way to handle this is to get wet. Like.. Seriously.. We need some water stat. A drinking pool. ANYTHING! We gotta go and roll around in some water. They won't be able to stand that."  

[Graceangel]

We should get out of this area first.

Yessss. She stared at him for a second with earnest look of on a mission to get off of this spot. "Right! Gotta get out of this spot. They're all over." She looked around them looking harder to see where hte ground had those little openings.

Seeing a path of where they weren't opened, she moved through there pawing like a ******** ballerina dancing through a tire hopscotch. She would stop every so often and look around. No ants? Did she get step on one? What was that? Yeah. It was making her plain skittish.

She stopped and spun around looking at the golden lion. "Ok.... Water water.. where is the water...." She knew there were some pools around. She often had a little cave she slipped into before daylight to sleep in. Only, which way was which way anymore? She had been turned around so many times, her bearings were solid gone.

"I.... don't know which way .. is which way anymore." Her face scrunched up. The dark cyan color of her face all squeezed together in embarrassment and frustration. "Ugh. There is water near where I sleep during the day, but I don't even know which way that is now." She wanted to face palm, but she needed to look around and watch her step.  

[Graceangel]

"THIS WAY! RIGHT!!!" She was totally in Operation: Get these ants off of me Mission mode! She shook her body out hoping to fling that last ant somewhere, anywhere that wasn't on her. It was the kind of shaking she'd do to get dried out after swimming.

She watched him point in the direction, and she took off with some quickness. The more she was moving she started to move faster, but she remembered she didn't know where she was going. She ran back to the golden lion. "Dude, keep up. Keep moving. Let's do this quick!" She wanted to just push him from behind since he wasn't moving at a speed she was happy with. "Let's go!"  

[Graceangel]

Saratama breathed in a deep breath. She just took a running start and jumped in. She moved out further and rolled herself into the water like a rolling torpedo. She came up moments later panting and gasping for air. She quickly flailed in the water making sure she was washed everywhere. This was all for ridding herself of ants. She didn't just go swimming everyday. Some lions did; she only did it to get clean when dirty.

She eventually hauled herself back up on the ground next to the water. She sat there dripping, sopping wet. She tilted her head to one side seeing if she felt anything. She tilted it to the other side and wiggled her tail around. Still nothing.

She began to feel relieved. "YESSSSS. I think this worked. Oh gosh. Please let this have worked." Then, she started shaking and flinging water off of her. Then, she waited for the golden lion. "Yo, Sunshine... When you get up here, I'll pat you down to make sure there's nothing there. Can't be too careful."